Pre-feasibility study for a CDM-AR project in the Cochabamba ...

- Farmers are well organized, during the implementation and consolidation phase
of the project farmers and there organization will play an active role in the
policies and strategies taken by the project.
- The project will have a high presence in the area, and a very close relation to
land owners.
2. Promotion and education
- Implementation of an intensive extension program to create awareness of the
advantages of the proposed land use practices among farmers.
- Implementation of an intensive training program to create the necessary
knowledge on the new land use practices among the farmers.
3. Economic incentives
- Promoted land use forms have a higher financial rate of return
- There will be established an economic incentive system, paying incentives for
forest land protected.
- An out-growers scheme, providing partial payments to farmers during
establishment and management of the forest plantations and sharing the benefits
when wood or other products can be harvested will be implemented.
Note: payments to farmers are made for plantations established and managed (per ha)
or forest conserved not for CER’s sold.
4. Legal mark
- Contracts will be signed with each land owner, making commitments about
project activities, which will be implemented on his land (including payments for
incentives)
- Contracts will be deposited within the Forest Super Intendancy (national
authority for control on forest activities), this will improve control on illegal
harvesting.
5. Farm visits (internal monitoring system)
- Fulfilment or eventually no fulfilment of conditions established in the contract
will be observed in an initial stage by frequent site visits of the project field
workers.
- Established or managed areas will be measured with GPS
7.4. Leakage avoiding activities
Displacement leakage is reduced to a minimum due to the implementation of labour
intensive and economic viable activities base on a more efficient land use system and
integrated farm planning. As a consequence traditional agricultural practices of slash
and burn will lose importance. Land used for annual crops will have a reduced fallow
period, because of the use of nitrogen fixing species (Inga sp., Mucuna pruriens and
other leguminous species). Land fertility is recovered much faster by leguminous
species than by species of natural fallow lands. Fallow land and secondary forests will
be enriched with the aim to make these areas economically productive and stock a
bigger amount of carbon. Additionally these activities will benefit the conservation of
primary forest still left on their farms and outside the farms.
Prefeasibility report Chapare
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